Robert Louis and Mrs M. I. Stevenson Twelve works R. L. Stev...

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£30 - £50

Robert Louis and Mrs M. I. Stevenson Twelve works R. L. Stevenson. '....Memoirs,' first edition, colour card wraps, b+w photographic plates tipped onto rectos with corresponding text on opposite rectos, some light spotting to edges of leaves, vg, T. N. Foulis, London & Edinburgh, 1912; 'The Letters of.....,' two volumes, original dark blue cloth, frontis, some spotting, Methuen and Co, London, 1902; 'In the South Seas,' original dark blue cloth, sporadic light spotting, vg, Chatto and Windus, London, 1900; With four works by Robert Louis; Mrs M.I. Stevenson. 'Letters from Samoa 1891-1895,' first edition, original red cloth with paper label to back strip, frontis image of the author, spotting to edge of text block, vg, Methuen & Co, London, 1906; 'The Cruise of "Janet Nichol" Among the South Sea Islands,' first UK edition, original cloth, frontis photograph, b+w photographs throughout, Chatto & Windus, London, 1915; Thomson Murray MacCallum and Jessie E. MacCullum (illustrator). 'Adrift in the South Seas Including Adventures with Robert Louis Stevenson,' first edition, ex library stock for Seale South Sea Island Collection Pacific Grove Public Library with blind stamps and ink stamps etc, original cloth detaching from text block, fair to good, Wetzel Publishing Co, Los Angeles, 1934. (12) From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.